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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

By : Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

By: Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

Overview of this book

With the use of drones, DIY projects have taken off. Programmers are rapidly moving from traditional application programming to developing exciting multi-utility projects. This book will teach you to build industry-level drones with Arduino and ESP8266 and their modified versions of hardware. With this book, you will explore techniques for leveraging the tiny WiFi chip to enhance your drone and control it over a mobile phone. This book will start with teaching you how to solve problems while building your own WiFi controlled Arduino based drone. You will also learn how to build a Quadcopter and a mission critical drone. Moving on you will learn how to build a prototype drone that will be given a mission to complete which it will do it itself. You will also learn to build various exciting projects such as gliding and racing drones. By the end of this book you will learn how to maintain and troubleshoot your drone. By the end of this book, you will have learned to build drones using ESP8266 and Arduino and leverage their functionalities to the fullest.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how we can build a mission control drone and how we can communicate to the drone from the server. We also discussed adding a camera to the drone so that we can have a real view from the drone.

So, now you can drop an egg on your friend's head from the sky, right? Just kidding. To be honest, I did that when I made my first package shipping or mission control drone. You may try this. But don't try to drop something too heavy, as you know the acceleration due to gravity is heartless, and the weight of the body will be increased as much as the drone is above and the body weigh. Whatever, you can now watch from your home what other people are doing by surveying, or your can add up some sensors and collect information of a place. These are the things mission control drone usually does. There are other usages of such kinds of drones...